talk among themselves about their wishes to marry the king: the elder promises to dress the entire army with a single roll of cloth; the middle one that she can feed the army with a single batch of bread, and the third sister promises to give birth to a boy with a moon on his breast and a girl with a star on the front. The king's son overhears their conversation, then marries the first sister. She fails in clothing the army, and is made a servant. The king's son marries the second sister and she also does not fulfill her boast, so she is also made a servant. He marries the third sister and has to go to war. While he is away, his wife gives birth to her promised twins, but the sisters take the babies and bury them in the garden. After the king's son returns, the queen is made to be a goose herd. On the children's graves, two cypress trees sprout and incline whenever their parents pass by. Their aunts notice the trees are the children and order them to be felled and planks made from them. This does not stop them, so the aunts order the planks to be burned. On the place they were burned, a palace appears and the twins are reborn as humans. During a hunt, the king discovers the palace and visits the twins. Adaptations A Hungarian variant of the tale was adapted into an episode of the Hungarian television series Magyar népmesék ("Hungarian Folk Tales") (hu), with the title A két aranyhajú fiú ("The Two Sons With Golden Hair"). Footnotes References External links Original text of the fairy tale at Wikisource (in Romanian) Doi feți cu stea în frunte at Project Gutenberg Romanian fairy tales Fictional princes Fictional twins Twins in fiction Fiction about shapeshifting Romanian mythology Fictional emperors and empresses Infanticide ATU 700-749